Langdon Filling Station
filling station in Arkansas, United States of America
The Langdon Filling Station is a historic automotive service station at 311 Park Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a single-story masonry building, constructed out of concrete blocks and finished with brick veneer, and houses three service bays and a small office and storage area. The building has a steeply pitched roof with rectangular vents in the English (Tudor) Revival style. Built about 1938, it was used as a service station into the 1990s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
“Langdon Filling Station” enters the record as filling station in Arkansas, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Langdon, Filling and Station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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